November 2017-April 2018 programme

NOVEMBER 11TH 2017 - SEPTEMBER 16TH 2018

++ "CONSIDÉRER LE MONDE", MUSEUM COLLECTION

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint Étienne Métropole is shedding light on the diversity of its extensive and unique collection. This exhibition proposes a reading beyond chronologies and medium-based sections. The diversity and extent of the MAMC+ collections allow this plurality of dialogues between works of different time periods and techniques. The recreation of lineage and elective affinities organized in stem is likely to surprise, touch, intrigue, disturb and open the way to fruitful debate.
Our 30th anniversary exhibition will focus on the constantly renewed representations of the world by artists of various nationalities, whether through painting, sculpture, drawing, photography or design. When confronted to the most primal, cold or minimal narrative writing, to a focus on the sole power of the language of forms, materials and colors, to the fascination for technology or the return to primitivism, to the search for sublime or the absolute… we will all be left to wonder.

NOVEMBER 11TH 2017 - APRIL 8TH 2018

++ "CONSIDÉRER LE MONDE : NARRATIVE ART", MUSEUM COLLECTION

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint Étienne Métropole is shedding light on the diversity of its extensive and unique collection.

The exhibition reflects the wealth and depth of the MAMC+ collections, benefiting in particular from the major donations in the 1990’s of Vicky Rémy and François and Ninon Robelin. The collection is unique in France, enabling the museum to present some fifty works from 25 European and American artists, alongside the collection of archives and publications held in the Jean Laude library.

The expression "Narrative Art" was used in the 1970’s to describe new artistic practices heralding a return to narration by combining photography and text. Emerging on the fringes of conceptual art, this international movement revealed a sensibility towards the time, where identity, memory, autobiography and fiction comprised the main themes.

NOVEMBER 11TH 2017 - APRIL 8TH 2018

++ ANISH KAPOOR : MY RED HOMELAND

For its 30th anniversary, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole is inviting famous British artist Anish Kapoor.

Given carte blanche in the large center room of the building, he will showcase "My Red Homeland" installation until Spring 2018, alongside exclusive artworks showcased for the very first time thanks to the longtime relationship of the artist and exhibition curator Lorand Hegyi, also Emeritus General Director of the museum.